Wyeat 1007

[msppilot]

Has anyone used wyeast 1007? I brewed a Sam Adams clone yesterday and placed it in primary in my basement. Currently the temperature in the area is about 53 degrees. Normally, I have seen some action in the airlock by now but I have never used this yeast before and I'm not sure how long it takes to get going. I made a starter so there should plenty of healthy cells in there.

 

[JonM]

It's a great yeast and ferments super clean in mid 50s. You're in good shape. Once it gets going, it'll probably get a HUGE fluffy krausen so def have a blowoff tube.

 

[Joewalla88]

This yeast is great. Really clean. I don't have a lager set up, so I've used this in the past for fake lagers, because it has such a clean profile. I've had it go into the mid 60s with no flavor issues. I think I've even pushed the max temp with no off flavors. It's very user friendly.

 

[Beer-lord]

I made a faux lager with it last year, fermented at 58 and it came out very clean. Hard for me to tell it wasn't real lager yeast. I think it's pretty much the same up to about 62 degrees or so.

 

[msppilot]

Looks like to may be starting to go. It's been almost 24 hours and there is no bubbles in the airlock yet but it looks a krausen has started to form. i removed the airlock and rigged up a blow off tube also just in case.